A pencil sketch by the marine artist William Lionel Wyllie (1851-1931). Here Greenwich is seen from an imagined aerial perspective just above and to the east of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. On the lawn in front of the Queen’s House can be seen the Royal Hospital School’s training ship ‘Fame’. Wyllie was a founder member of the Society for Nautical Research whose primary aims were the restoration of the ‘Victory’ and the foundation of the National Maritime Museum. This item was originally dated around 1910, but it relates to an oil painting of Greenwich exhibited in 1924 (and a parallel print, see PAF0715) for which it is apparently a development drawing rather than an on-the-spot sketch, given the elevated viewpoint. For notes regarding the date, see PAF1305.